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Wanda boss keen to woo Spain
Jan 30, 2015 (WiC 268)

Few eyebrows were raised last week when Spanish lender BBVA dumped half of its remaining 9.9% stake in China Citic Bank for $1.7 billion. After all, most of BBVA’s banking peers have offloaded their shareholdings in Chinese lenders over the ...

A bad week for Chongqing football fans
Jan 23, 2015 (WiC 267)

Changes of ownership at football clubs can be tectonic moments for a team’s long-suffering fans. Sheikh Mansour’s transformation of Manchester City is one of the more notable cases. His infusion of cash in 2008 brought world class players to ...

Lippi steps aside at Evergrande
Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260)

Wilf McGuinness was promoted from the reserve team to become manager of Manchester United in 1969. He replaced Matt Busby, in charge for a quarter of a century and a legendary coach who had won the European Cup the year before. But it wasn’t a ...

HSBC Champions golf tournament
Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260)

In the most dramatic conclusion yet to the HSBC Champions golf tournament, Bubba Watson (second left in the photo below) claimed victory last Sunday at the Shanghai event. Having lost his lead with a double-bogey on the 17th, Watson made a ...

Beijing has new sports plan
Nov 7, 2014 (WiC 259)

The South Korean reality show 2 Days & 1 Night began the second season of its Chinese adaptation this week. The programme tries to highlight places of interest by taking celebrities on trips to the wilderness. But rather than ...

Li Na retires from tennis
Sep 26, 2014 (WiC 254)

The Women’s Tennis Association sees the Chinese market as crucial. How to judge this? Look no further than the number of WTA events hosted there. A decade ago it was just two, but this year 10 events were arranged in China. The growing ...

Where is China’s Rocky Balboa?
Sep 5, 2014 (WiC 251)

Last week Shanghai held a rare professional boxing event. The show, dubbed the “Fists of Power”, incorporated seven bouts. Two title fights were fought by Chinese boxers but interest in the event was muted. The venue wasn’t full and most of ...

New book charts China’s golfing odyssey
Jul 11, 2014 (WiC 245)

Arnold Palmer realised how little the locals knew about golf when he agreed to design the first course in China for two generations. After years of golfing purdah, the sport was gibberish to the Chinese, something that the American golfing ...

Can Chinese bet on World Cup?
Jul 4, 2014 (WiC 244)

In the decades after Mao Zedong took power in 1949, gambling was considered an immoral practice. It was deemed symptomatic of a decadent era when landlords and eunuchs ran China. That taboo was broken in 1984 when the Chinese Athletics ...

Its national team ain’t there, but Chinese remain obsessed with World Cup
Jun 27, 2014 (WiC 243)

Just like at the last football World Cup in South Africa, China’s impact this time round in Brazil is being felt more in plastic than in playing soccer. In fact, China has only qualified for the finals of the tournament once – in 2002, ...

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Wanda boss keen to woo Spain Jan 30, 2015 (WiC 268) Few eyebrows were raised last week when Spanish lender BBVA dumped half of its remaining 9.9% stake in China Citic Bank for $1.7 billion. After all, most of BBVA’s banking peers have offloaded their shareholdings in Chinese lenders over the ...

HSBC Champions golf tournament Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260) In the most dramatic conclusion yet to the HSBC Champions golf tournament, Bubba Watson (second left in the photo below) claimed victory last Sunday at the Shanghai event. Having lost his lead with a double-bogey on the 17th, Watson made a ...

Beijing has new sports plan Nov 7, 2014 (WiC 259) The South Korean reality show 2 Days & 1 Night began the second season of its Chinese adaptation this week. The programme tries to highlight places of interest by taking celebrities on trips to the wilderness. But rather than ...

Li Na retires from tennis Sep 26, 2014 (WiC 254) The Women’s Tennis Association sees the Chinese market as crucial. How to judge this? Look no further than the number of WTA events hosted there. A decade ago it was just two, but this year 10 events were arranged in China. The growing ...

Can Chinese bet on World Cup? Jul 4, 2014 (WiC 244) In the decades after Mao Zedong took power in 1949, gambling was considered an immoral practice. It was deemed symptomatic of a decadent era when landlords and eunuchs ran China. That taboo was broken in 1984 when the Chinese Athletics ...

Wanda boss keen to woo Spain
Jan 30, 2015 (WiC 268)

Few eyebrows were raised last week when Spanish lender BBVA dumped half of its remaining 9.9% stake in China Citic Bank for $1.7 billion. After all, most of BBVA’s banking peers have offloaded their shareholdings in Chinese lenders over the ...

HSBC Champions golf tournament
Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260)

In the most dramatic conclusion yet to the HSBC Champions golf tournament, Bubba Watson (second left in the photo below) claimed victory last Sunday at the Shanghai event. Having lost his lead with a double-bogey on the 17th, Watson made a ...

Beijing has new sports plan
Nov 7, 2014 (WiC 259)

The South Korean reality show 2 Days & 1 Night began the second season of its Chinese adaptation this week. The programme tries to highlight places of interest by taking celebrities on trips to the wilderness. But rather than ...

Li Na retires from tennis
Sep 26, 2014 (WiC 254)

The Women’s Tennis Association sees the Chinese market as crucial. How to judge this? Look no further than the number of WTA events hosted there. A decade ago it was just two, but this year 10 events were arranged in China. The growing ...

Can Chinese bet on World Cup?
Jul 4, 2014 (WiC 244)

In the decades after Mao Zedong took power in 1949, gambling was considered an immoral practice. It was deemed symptomatic of a decadent era when landlords and eunuchs ran China. That taboo was broken in 1984 when the Chinese Athletics ...